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quotes

1.

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

- Duhamel, George

2.

Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with human rights, which are the dignity, stature, humanity, respect, and freedom belonging to all people by right of their birth.

- Gregory, Dick

3.

There is no God but God.

- Koran, The

4.

I don't visit my parents often because Delta Airlines won't wait in the yard while I run in.

- Margaret Smith

5.

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

- James M. Barrie

6.

The UN is not just a product of do-gooders. It is harshly real. The day will come when men will see the U.N. and what it means clearly. Everything will be all right -- you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction, and see it as a drawing they made themselves.

- Hammarskjold, Dag

7.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

- Marx, Karl

8.

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.

- Oscar Levant

9.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

- James, William

10.

Aggression unchallenged is aggression unleashed.

- Phaedrus

11.

The wretchedness of being rich is that you live with rich people. To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.

- Smith, Logan Pearsall

12.

Water generally flows downhill in this area.

- Bob Bennett

13.

I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

- Mark Twain

14.

You have the need and the right to spend part of your life caring for your soul. It is not easy. You have to resist the demands of the work-oriented, often defensive, element in your psyche that measures life only in terms of output -- how much you produce -- not in terms of the quality of your life experiences. To be a soulful person means to go against all the pervasive, prove-yourself values of our culture and instead treasure what is unique and internal and valuable in yourself and your own personal evolution.

- Bolen, Jean Shinoda

15.

The journey is difficult, immerse. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.

- Loren Eiseley

16.

None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.

- Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

17.

If men liked shopping, they'd call it research.

- Cythina Nelms

18.

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o clock is a scoundrel.

- Johnson, Samuel

19.

I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.